Improvement quotes
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"You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards."
"Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life"
"Let us praise even the slightest improvement. That inspires the other person to keep on improving."
"It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing."
"Man cannot really improve himself without improving others."
"Your life will never improve unless you start making daily improvements."
"Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere."
"It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements."
"Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement."
"It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration."
"See it better than it is or you have no future, without vision there is no possibility of improvement"
"An extraordinary life is all about daily, continuous improvements in the areas that matter most."
"Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change."
"Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not."
"For our improvement we need a mirror."
"Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement."
"Real improvement is of slow growth only."
"Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance."
"You got to be careful to not get too comfortable with incremental improvement. I think sometimes you just got to jump off a ledge."
"One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations."
